I first encountered Reed Smoot more than two decades ago while researching the life and political career of Parley P. Christensen, a Utah political maverick who became the Farmer-Labor party nominee for president in […]
[…] the presence of two card-carrying Gentiles—Donald Worster and Richard Etulain—whose fresh perspectives are sorely needed in the insular world of Mormon scholarship. Like most collaborative projects, the essays vary considerably. Many contain personal reminiscences of […]
At least the kids were gone, settled among family for the next ten or twelve hours. That gave him some time to pull himself together, to sort things out before tomorrow, before the rest […]
[…] (28-29), but rather polygyny is a practiced form of marriage in the majority of cultures around the world and is conducive both to stability in the social order and democracy. In other words, polygyny […]
[…] of local and national government leaders, the army, and LDS church leaders. These factors prevented a reasonable search for a path to peace and reconciliation. The author does not oversimplify any of these situations […]
My introduction to Frank C. Robertson was at the age of eleven when someone gave me a copy of one of his juvenile westerns called The Young Nighthawk. Years later I discovered that Robertson […]
[…] “The pages gave off drumbeats” (65). The Mormon boy is “pulled .. . away, off into a world of wide skies and hot mesas” as he scans “the designs, the drawings, even the scribblings” […]
[…] makes horses hard and tough so they do little sweating while working.” He commended me for my search for words and the right ex pression. My ongoing search, much like his for words to […]
[…] the greater Clair’s suffering, chasms of it for a girl who had not been born into this world, but rather cast down in it.. . cast down, no kin, and half her face flayed […]
[…] religions in the United States, and since it has achieved a large number of adherents throughout the world, it is properly called a Chris tian church. If Mormons did not believe in the atonement […]